This is only a test.

O.K. Here I am Lord! Take this from me! LOL! What a time I am having... Burnt arm, back out of wack, got some bug that has me trying to decide if I need to walk to the bathroom, or run, then my pants! LOL! On my way in this morning my leg felt funny... my pants ripped... I am now walking around church, or running with one hand trying to cover a hole, back twisted, bathroom to far away, arm rapped up tight... Praise God!! This is so much comedy... At some point you just come to realize, this is just to much, and it can only be the enemy, I love it!! You know as decieving as he can be, he just can't help himself, if he can't get your attention he will just keep going and going... it can become rediculous!!
Now I bring this up not because of the need of sympathy or complaining... No I bring it up for much grander purposes... Praise God!!! And I mean that in everyway!!! There was a time in my life where one of these happenings would have distroyed me, my day, my week, maybe even my month. But now... BUT NOW... WOW!! I look at it so differently... I mean really... It is about Him... And what He has done for me... What He has done~ does~ or will do for any of us... I still have JOY... His Joy... Crazy huh? Crazy is as crazy does... 1 Cor. 5:13 Here is what is happening in my head... I went to my PaPa and He kissed the bobo burn on my arm all better...my back, well if I wouldn't spend so much time dreaming of heaven and chasing butterflies through fields and fields of wild flowers with Baylee (my grandson)... my pants, well lets just face it, its funny, one of those moments that 'could only happen to me' that we all seem to experience a thousand times in our lives... But the catcher is, I choose to praise God!! And He is the one who gives me Joy... And even when my pain is at a breath stopping point, I can still look to my Lord and Savior, and His promises for me, His love for me... and BAM just like that HIS JOY and a smile on my face... OH how wonderful He is!!! Tears of Joy well up deep inside!!! To think there was a time where I would let this Joy be stolen from me... Not today!!! Not ever again!!! There is nothing that will keep me from His love NOTHING!!! Romans 8:31-39 ~ Try to read that and not well up with confidence that He loves you!!! VICTORY!!!!
And at that moment in my day when I was wondering what was going on... Wondering where He was.... Was He still with me.... I was reminded, I have a choice... what will I do... The thought THIS IS ONLY A TEST... And I am going to see it through... A open book test... I will know if I pass by my fruit...
Galatians 5:22-26~ Yea!!! Praise be to God!! The Holy Spirit is in control!! I know by the fruit!! May He continue to lead me in every area of my life. May He continue to lead in all His childrens lives. May He give us the wisdom, knowledge, and discernment we need to see His plans for us and may He give us the strength and courage we need to carry that out!!! Again PRAISE BE TO GOD!!!